Tesla to pull plug on letting drivers play video games after federal investigation
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Tesla reversed course Thursday and will no longer allow video games to be played on its cars’ touchscreens when…
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Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue Reading Company seeks to restore oil lease on land sacred to tribes
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Attorneys for an oil and gas company are asking a federal judge to reinstate a drilling…
Continue Reading Tesla to halt games on infotainment screens in moving cars
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Under pressure from U.S. auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be…
Continue Reading Officials question San Francisco’s emergency over opioids
By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is meeting to consider an emergency order the mayor wants…
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Forecasters: New Mexico should brace for worsening drought
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The last three months have been very dry in New Mexico and it’s going to get…
Continue Reading Markets 2021: Stocks soar, IPOs explode, crypto goes wild
Associated Press Wall Street delivered another strong year in 2021, as a spike in consumer demand fueled by the reopening of the global economy…
Continue Reading Texas refinery blast could help push gas prices above $4 a gallon
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business The blast at a Texas oil refinery early Thursday will probably push already high gasoline prices even higher —…
Continue Reading Amazon settles with NLRB to give workers power to organize
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon, under pressure to improve worker rights, has reached a settlement with the…
Continue Reading Search for a COVID-19 test means sold-out signs, long lines
By JIM MUSTIAN, JEFFREY COLLINS and CANDICE CHOI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden promised to distribute hundreds of millions…
Continue Reading Omicron worries push mortgage rates down; 30-year at 3.05%
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fears about the economic fallout from the omicron variant pushed long-term U.S. mortgage…
Continue Reading Markets 2021: Stocks soar, IPOs explode, crypto goes wild
Associated Press Wall Street delivered another strong year in 2021, as a spike in consumer demand fueled by the reopening of the global economy…
Continue Reading AP Exclusive: Polish opposition senator hacked with spyware
By VANESSA GERA and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Security researchers say they’ve confirmed that a third Polish…
Continue Reading New home sales jump 12.4% in November, highest in 7 months
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Wrkiter WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of new single-family homes rose 12.4% in November, the fastest pace in seven…
Continue Reading US adds Merck pill as 2nd easy-to-use drug against COVID-19
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators have authorized a second pill against COVID-19, an antiviral drug from Merck…
Continue Reading Tesla to pull plug on letting drivers play video games after federal investigation
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Tesla reversed course Thursday and will no longer allow video games to be played on its cars’…
Continue Reading Consumer prices up 5.7% over past year, fastest in 39 years
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Wrkter WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer prices rose 5.7% over the past year, the fastest pace in 39 years as a…
Continue Reading Albanian prime minister apologizes over database leak
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s prime minister has apologized for a large leak of personal records from a government database of state and…
Continue Reading Turkey, Qatar to discuss Kabul airport plans with Taliban
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run agency says a joint Turkish and Qatari delegation is traveling to Afghanistan to discuss plans for…
Continue Reading US jobless claims unchanged at 205,000
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, remaining at a historically…
Continue Reading A key inflation measure just hit a nearly four-decade high
By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Prices remain high in America, and inflation shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. A key measure of US inflation…
Continue Reading Business leaders must step up to help people and the planet
Opinion by Davis Smith for CNN Business Perspectives When I was 4 years old, my family left the United States and moved to Latin America, where I…
Continue Reading The biggest tech fails of 2021
By Rachel Metz, CNN Business For many, 2021 was a mix of hopeful and challenging, as covid vaccines became more widely available but the pandemic…
Continue Reading To grandmother’s house or no? Omicron disrupts holiday plans
By LAURA UNGAR and TALI ARBEL Associated Press For the second year in a row, the ever-morphing coronavirus presents would-be holiday revelers with a…
Continue Reading Pfizer pill becomes 1st US-authorized home COVID treatment
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans can…
Continue Reading The world could consume more oil in 2022 than ever before
By Charles Riley, CNN Business Electric cars are taking over the streets, big companies are trying to be nicer to the environment and people are…
Continue Reading Crews extinguish Texas refinery fire that left four injured
BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) — Crews have extinguished a large fire at a Houston-area refinery that left four people injured. The fire started at about 1…
Continue Reading Buttigieg doles out $241M to US ports to boost supply chain
By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is announcing more than $241 million in grants to bolster…
Continue Reading In Africa, rescuing the languages that Western tech ignores
By MATT O’BRIEN and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words…
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Intel apologizes in China after backlash over Xinjiang statement
By Teele Rebane, CNN Business Intel has apologized in China following a backlash over a directive to suppliers not to source products or labor from…
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